What To Do If The Dog Loves To Bark At Other People's Dogs

2023 Author: Molly Page | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 22:49

Question: My dog loves on the street loves to bark at all dogs. Many large dogs walk without leashes or muzzles and always run to us to fight my dog. And the owners do not even think to take their dogs. I start hitting someone else's dog with a leash, shouting the command "Fu", picking up my dog in my arms … It turns out that I always protect my dog, and not me. Maybe I should let my dog off the leash and let them figure it out together? But he always goes home covered in blood. What should I do?

Answer: On a leash, the dog feels more confident, and even timid ones allow themselves attacks against other dogs. But by displaying threatening behavior, your dog gives rise to a fight. By trying to actively interfere with his communication with other dogs, you are not doing him a very good service.

When two adult males meet, a fight does not always take place. Unless, of course, the interests of the pack or territory are affected. Often everything is limited to ritual behavior of sniffing, menacing looks, tense postures. Having growled and amused their vanity to their fullest, the dogs usually disperse. But it is enough for one of the owners to take at least half a step in their direction, reach out and even more so try to hit someone else's dog, as the fragile balance is disturbed. His dog perceives any attempt to interfere as support from the owner and rushes at the enemy. The alien dog regards the blows of a stranger as pain inflicted by the opponent, and fights even more fiercely.

Experienced dog owners never try to disperse two dogs frozen in threatening positions. On the contrary, the owners disperse in different directions and try to recall them with a voice. If the dogs have already grappled, they are carefully, each his own, pulled away by their hind legs. It is strongly not recommended to pull the dogs by the tails; spinal injury is possible. You cannot grab them by the collars in the heat of the battle, you will suffer either from your own or from someone else's dog.

If one of the fighters grabbed and does not let go of the opponent, do not jerk sharply, otherwise the damage will be stronger. Support the dogs' heads and necks and gently try to loosen their grip. To do this, some owners act on the pain points of their dogs (groin, testes), sometimes it is possible to unclench the jaws using improvised means.

And further. Apparently, you have reasons to walk your mittel on a leash. It is possible that, deprived of your active support, he would have behaved much calmer. Don't let him throw himself at the dogs. Let him know that you are not happy with his behavior.

To avoid conflicts with running dogs, you can use an ultrasonic whistle. It is specially designed to scare them away.

Source: newspaper "Cat and Dog"